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Stop the Ohio Super-Max!
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 11
Ohio presently imprisons some 41,000 prisoners in 23 different penitentiaries designed to hold 21,738. It plans to build six more prisons, including a super-maximum, or Super Max, prison which will confine only 500 prisoners and cost taxpayers $15 million to build. Super max prisons, such as the U.S. Penitentiary at …
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